From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 15 10:37:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA24065 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:37:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA24057 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:37:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA22594; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:14:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704151714.KAA22594@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Another Linux Religious war (was Re: Commercial vendors registry) To: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu (David S. Miller) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:14:39 -0700 (MST) Cc: fullermd@narcissus.ml.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704150422.AAA01070@jenolan.caipgeneral> from "David S. Miller" at Apr 15, 97 00:22:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Plus, some of these FreeBSD vs Linux mails are so darn funny, they > HAVE to be saved for posterity...;) > > Humorous at first glance or not, it creates bad blood. This was the > point I was trying to make with my previous mail. They have value other than humor. Their value is that when A compares unfavorably to B, it motivates A to get off their laurels (or their fat butts, whichever they are resting on), and *fix* the problem. Sometimes, this type of comparison is the *only* way to motivate action... laurels are (apparently) quite comfortable; so comfortable that people would rather rest on them than act where action is needed. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.